Bendy Em

Contortion, performed with an unusual amount of charm. Emma folds herself into shapes that look impossible and does it in the open, close enough for people to see there's no trick to it. The finish is a 16 inch perspex box, and getting entirely inside it. She's taken the routine from Adelaide to Edinburgh, played corporate functions, and clocked up more than a thousand circus street performances along the way. There's screen work in the mix too, alongside the mutants of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Strong on a stage, better still when a crowd can gather right around.